There are Solarized color schemes available for many applications: Vim, Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA, Netbeans, Mutt, GIMP and more. Below I'll tell you how to set up Solarized for Gnome Terminal (and Guake) as well as Gedit

--will also depend on which terminal application is used on the system..

Pick another terminal program, for example gedit, and check the colors